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Made of Oregon Pine and Bamboo; the Roof of Corrugated Iron ; 
Cost of Building, $750 


The World’s Cry for 
the Lord’s Money 


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THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY 
OFS TEE 
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 


150 FiFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 


Edited by 
CHARLES H. MORGAN 


The World’s Cry for the 
Lord’s Money 


IMPERATIVE MISSION NEEDS 





a=] UR missions in various foreign fields make 

A] splendid returns every year in converts. 

The Methodist Episcopal Church in 
India, China, Japan, Korea, Africa, 
South America, Mexico, and Europe 
has a larger aggregate of communicants 
to report for 1905—232,934, according to the Metho- 
dist Year Book—than the same Church reported in 
the United States in 1818, at the end of fifty-two 
years of labor. 

The growth is most encouraging; but it might easily 
be, and would be, vastly larger if our faithful mis- 
sionaries and native workers had more adequate 
provision for the housing of converts. In many 
places they are laboring utterly without property, 
either houses of worship or places of residence owned 
by the Society. “Rented places are generally both 
uncertain of tenure and unsuitable in character. 
Some of our pastors are compelled to live in unsani- 
tary houses and under conditions which invite plague 
and endanger health. 

We must have houses of worship and pastoral rest- 
dences of our own, otherwise our efforts will be crip- 
pled. All our missionaries agree on this point. 


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Here are some of their testimonies as to the necessity 
of owning churches and parsonages: 

They give us a foothold in the enemy’s country. 

They create confidence in the permanency of the work. 

They become centers of evangelistic work. 

They prove that we have come to stay. 

They advertise themselves as definite headquarters. 

The people always know where to come for worship 
or to see the pastor. 

They give converts confidence in the future. 

They encourage our people to develop local resources 
in self-support. 

West China will come to full self-support as soon as 
the stations are supplied with church buildings. 

They secure the respect of the local authorities and 
give the mission a standing in the community. 

An enterprise that can be driven from one rented 
house to another cannot command popular respect. 

Capricious or unfriendly landlords cannot drive us 
from our own property. 

In ———— (China), we have been working twenty 
years and have achieved no success, because we have 
been forced to change so many times. 

The work has spread so rapidly that the Mission- 
ary Society has not been able to provide for property 
needs, except in a small way in its annual appropria- 
tions. In the last three years only $210,000 has been 
set apart for this purpose, and much of this total has 
gone to school, hospital, and publication buildings 
and equipment. The evangelistic work must now 
be suitably equipped with houses of worship and res- 
idence, and we hope the urgent calls from our vari- 
ous fields will receive a prompt and liberal response. 
The churches at home have a Board of Church Ex- 
tension; the churches abroad must depend entirely 
on the Missionary Society. 

Bear in mind that a comparatively small gift, $100, 

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$250, $500, will secure a village church without other 
help; secure a church or residence with local help; 
secure a church or residence aided by the appropri- 
ations; and encourage the native brethren to struggle 
for the balance. 

Remember, also, that a gift sufficient to erect a 
church, carries with it the privilege of giving it a 
name as a memorial building. 

Who will provide a house of God for one of the fol- 
lowing needy places? Write the Missionary Secre- 
taries, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York. 





SPANISH METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 


IQUIQUE, SOUTH AMERICA 


SOUTH AMERICA 
SOUTH AMERICA CONFERENCE 


CHacaBuco—Growing railroad town, 100 miles 
west of Buenos Ayres. Valuable property and 
prosperous church. Larger building needed. Gift 
of $500 would*be met by $1,500 on field, ensuring 
good church and parsonage. 

DoLtorEs—One hundred and twenty miles from 
Buenos Ayres. In spite of their poverty, people 
have saved $65 gold for house of worship. Five 
hundred dollars would secure it and inspire effort 
toward self-support. 

Banta BLANcA—Seaport with prospects of becom- 
ing a great city. Lot given us has trebled in value. 
Building fund of $3,900 gold. Gift of $1,000 
would make possible the securing of balance need- 
ed to erect fine building, and parsonage could be 
built without further help. 

Cuivitcoy—Population 12,000. Ninety miles west 
of Buenos Ayres. Society has secured land 
and church. $500 outside help would enable 
congregation to build $2,000 parsonage and save 
$300 a year, missionary money, that now goes for 
rent. ’ 

FLores—Large and growing section in Buenos Ayres. 
Devoted membership and promise of strong, in- 
fluential church. $1,000 would secure good site 
for church building. A gift of $500 would be du- 
plicated by $500 from people. Prompt action 
needed; values rising. 

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ConcorpiaAa—An excellent work. People struggling 
to raise building fund of $3,000. Gift of $1,000 
would ensure success and a self-supporting society. 

MeErRcEDES.—site secured. Willing and liberal people. 
$500 would mean chapel at once. 

OTHER East CoAst Portnts.—A dozen other places 
in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay could be 
named where gifts of from $300 to $500 would 
immediately secure much-needed churches. 


ANDES CONFERENCE 


ANGOL.—Population 7,500. Work began in car- 
penter shop. People would not rent property be- 
cause afraid of fanatical priests. Many converts, 





FRONTIER CHAPEL, SOUTH AMERICA 


among them a man who became mayor. Friend 
bought splendid property, at a cost of $2,000, and 
holds it for Missionary Society. We can sell part of 
the lot for $500, but need $500 more to erect brick 
church. It can be called by the donor’s name. 

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Cura CanTtiIn—A new town of growing importance. 
Some of our people moved there from Victoria; 
have regular services by a local preacher, and a Sun- 
day school. A lot and building materials are se- 
cured; $100 would assure the erection of a chapel. 

ConcEpcion—Girls’ College. Hereis a property worth 
$30,000 and it is a great evangelizing power among 
the girls of the middle and higher classes. It needs 
more facilities. $3,000 will equip it for its larger 
mission. 

YuncaAI—A faithful member preaches as he can. 
It is an interesting work. The people have gath- 
ered materials for building. They need money for 
doors and windows and the purchase of a lot. 


NORTH ANDES MISSION 


The place where we need property first and most 
is in Callao. Our work was begun here about four- 
teen years ago and is now quite extensive, though 
we do not own as yet a single piece of real estate. 
When once we have property our work assumes a per- 
manent form, but as long as we occupy only rented 
houses we are but transients. We need $10,000 in 
addition to $5,000 which we have already raised. 
With this we could buy a half block in a very good 
location, and on it could be placed the schools, mis- 
sion home, and church. Some of the buildings now 
on said property could be used at once, and others 
could be used after partial remodeling. This would 
enable us to cut down our rents, which now amount 
to about $1,500 annually. 

We should buy early as the price of property in 
Callao and Lima is going up every day. A place 
near us that could have been bought three years ago 
for $5,000 is now held at $8,o0o0o and this is a fair 
sample of the advance. Rents are being raised in 
proportion. 

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In Lima we have collected in the Spanish con- 
gregation about $1,000 for church property and we 
need $3,000 more to add to this to buy a lot, and then 
$10,000 to erect a church. Lima is a city of 130,000 
population and is growing rapidly. There is but 
one Protestant church in the city and that is Angli- 
can, and does practically nothing for the evan- 
gelization of Peru. Methodism should be represented 
here by a good, substantial church building instead 
of being cramped up, as it now is, in poorly arranged 
halls that are in reality only store rooms, and rented 
ones at that. 

In the interior we have a church in Tarma, or- 
ganized by Bro. Knotts, and in Huancayo one under 
the care of a native pastor, Senor Guerrero. These 
are both doing well and are making a winning fight 
against idolatrous Romanism in those places. We 
need $1,000 in each place to buy a lot, with building 
already on it, that could easily be arranged and made 
convenient for permanent occupancy. 


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VNIHO ‘Had-DNVIN JO HOUNHO MON 





CHINA 
HINGHUA CONFERENCE 


Sinciu—-Missionary residence needed, costing at 
least $2,500. It is acounty seat. The county is 
very rich and populous. Our native church one 
year ago reported: Members, 649; probationers, 
345; inquirers, 825; baptized, children, 344. Total 
2,163. We have the money for-a new man. He 
has not been found, at this writing, but Bishop and 
Board are looking for him, and he will be here 
long before we get a residence built. 

AnTAU—Residence for the Medical Missionary, al- 
ready provided for by our appropriations. Hospital 
site bargained for already, to be paid for by con- 
tributions on the field. Here is our seaport, with 
population of 100,000. A medical missionary 
could not have a finer field. But he must have a 
house to live in, estimated cost, $2,500. 

Binc-HAI—A seaport. It will be.a very important 
trade center soon, as small steamers are stopping: 
there. We have been there for nearly forty years 
and are still renting. It will be a presiding elder’s 
district headquarters in a few years. The Church 
in all this region is very prosperous, but not a single 
church building worth mentioning is owned by us. 
At least $1,000 is needed. The people would give 
liberally. A memorial to a loved one for $1,000! 
Who will build it? 

Kio-SauH—A very large market town. We have 
been there over thirty years. Still we are in inde- 

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scribably unsuitable quarters. We have lost by 
death at this place four preachers, all ordained 
elders, three of whom, at least were victims of the 
bubonic plague, or other diseases contracted by 
living in this unhealthy location and house. We 
must build. These people subscribed over $100 
one Sunday evening last spring, toward a church. 
They need at least $500. 

VILLAGE CHAPELS-~We have a large number of 
places where they are worshiping and the pastor 
is living in native houses, loaned or rented, with 
no sanitation, no conveniences of life,no essentials 
to health and decency. Without seeing these 
conditions, no American can understand them. 
Through them we have lost some of our most 
valuable workers. It requires from $100 to $200, 
in addition to what the people can give, in 
order to build properly. The people give far 
beyond their ability.in many places. We know of 
no such givers as a class in Christian lands as our 
Chinese Christians. 

Ua-cai—We have a good eaters Piss and $150 
subcribed, whenever we can help them with a like 
amount, for building a chapel. 

CuING-TAH—They have made heroic efforts, and built 
a good church holding 300 or more. It is under cover, 
but requires $100 more to finish it. They need a 
parsonage also, as it will be the head of a new cir- 
cuit next conference year. A very prosperous 
church, and all that region seems to be turning to 
Christ. The parsonage aid should be at least $100, or 
$200 in all. They have given and pledged about $300. 

O-su—The headquarters of circuit. A great salt- 
producing region on the seacoast. Old chapel 
unfit for human habitation. A liberal people will 
subcribe $200, if helped $200 more, to build a good 
village chapel and parsonage. 


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BAH-Go-LAU—A large and important market town, 
where we have been for over thirty years, and ac- 
complished little, largely because cur chapels have 
been so fearfully unsuitable in every way. Now 
we are in a little shop, on the main street, no yard 
of any kind or size. Plague cases numerous all 
around every summer. Preacher and family must 
move elsewhere every year for four months of hot 
weather, while work goes to pieces. At the small 
outlay of $200, we could remedy all this, with an 
additional $100 or more given by the people, and 
our work would cease to be so largely in vain. 

There are ten or a dozen other places where the 
needs and opportunities are no less imperative and 
inviting. In several places the people have built, 
but have not been able to finish up properly. Such 
places can be helped out by $50 to $100, and the 
sacrifices already made by the people will bear 
much more fruit. In every case of a gift for a 
chapel of $100, or more, the building may be named 
by the donor as a memorial or otherwise. 


CENTRAL CHINA MISSION 


Yanc-cHow—Is a fu city of more than 100,000 in- 
habitants, and is located on the grand canal about 
fifteen miles from Chinkiang (north) and is in the 
heart of a rich farming district. It is a rich city, 
the home of many retired officials, and has all the 
vices common to a rich unprinciplied community. 
Buddhist priests and immoral houses abound in 
great numbers, and the evil influences emanating 
from this place to other citiesin the Yangtse Valley 
cannot be discribed. Ifthereis any place where our 
work needs to be strengthened it is at Yang-chow. 
The needs are as follows: First, and most important, 
we need $300 to build a suitable parsonage on 
chapel grounds for a native preacher. The present 

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parsonage can be used to a very good advantage 
for a graded school leading up to our higher schools. 
Secondly, we need $600 to buy enough street front 
and erect buildings on the same for suitable inquiry 
rooms, book rooms, and chapel keeper’s room. 
Thirdly, we need $2,500 to build another foreign 
evangelist’s house on our present compound. Fourth- 
ly, we need $500 to build an addition to our present 
foreign missionary residence. The work here could 
be carried on with much better results if it were pos- 
sible to make the above-mentioned improvements. 


NORTH CHINA CONFERENCE 


HvaI-LAI-HSIEN—Asks for $75 in order to put the 
parsonage for the preacher in suitable condition. 
We have an old building on the grounds, but in 
such a dilapidated state that we cannot use 
it. Much of the material in said building is in 
good condition, especially the wood. At present 
the preacher has no suitable home for his family. 
We must do something at once. 

Mi-YUN-HSIEN—Require $100 to provide place for 
street chapel preaching onmarket days. The build- 
ing used for street chapel was formerly a shop with 
no depth. If we want people to come in to hear 
the preaching we must have a comfortable place; 
at least room to sit down. We wish to enlarge 
the building in native style, in order that the 
preacher may have three times as many hearers 
comfortably seated as he has now. 

YEN-CHING-cCHou—Estimated need, $100; our chapel is 
too small now for our growing Sabbath congrega- 
tions, and is badly arranged and unsuitable for at- 
tracting street congregations. There is a large mark- 
et every other day in this city, with crowds of men at 
our very door. We must rearrange our front and 
greatly enlarge our chapel in order to meet our 

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VNIHO ‘OVIHD-AY-NEIL LY HOUNHO YAO 





needs. Here our work is in a most promising con- 
dition, more hopeful than at any other point on 
the district outside of Peking itself. We have 
here one of our finest young preachers, Chen-Wei- 
ping. It was at Yen-ching-chou that his father 
Chen-Ta-yung, his mother, one brother and a 
sister, and more than fifty members were killed 
in t900. He goes to his new appointment with 
the one great desire to avenge their death by build- 
ing up a great church of true Christians to the glory 
of God and as a lasting monument to his dead. We 
most earnestly ask the whole Church to pray for 
brother Chen and his work 

SAN-TUN-YING—A large market town. We have been 
trying for years to secure a small property in the 
town but without success. Last winter for $200 
we might have had good property, suitable for 
our work. No regular services have yet been held 
in the place. It will be impossible to do so till we 
secure property. Estimate that $210 is needed 
from abroad. 

LIN-NAN-TSANG—Is a large and busy market’ town. 
It-is in the midst of a very=fertile; district) “The 
population of the town is some twenty or thirty 
thousand,while the surrounding country is densely 
populated. There are hundreds of interested in- 
quirers in this district. Twenty thousand or more 
copies Of Gospels have been sold in the region 
during the last year. Two or three preachers 
and colporteurs are here every market day— 
six times a month. The preaching lasts the whole 
day through or until the workers are exhausted. 
There is a fine prospect of building up a strong 
church here and it is in the direction we need to 
extend our work; where no work has been done by 
any Mission. The sum of $819 is required from 
the United States, 


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Hu-Ko-cHuANG—This society is in the village of 
Ku-au-chiao, near the market town of Hu-ko- 
chuang. Recently there has been an increase 
of interest. Pastor Cheng who was sent to the cir- 
cuit this last Conference became interested in se- 
curing a chapel. He won the confidence and 
hearts of the people, and in a short time secured 
subscriptions amounting to over $125. Pastor 
Cheng was taken ill a few weeks ago and has just 
died (July 31, 1905). He was greatly beloved in that 
region and wherever he had labored, also by all his 
brethren on the district. He was for two years 
past head teacher of the district training class of 
twenty or more men preparing for Christian work 
and the ministry. Since he had set his heart on 
this chapel and did so much toward it, we wish to 
make it a memorial chapel and to raise all the funds 
by subscription. He was supported by the Halsey 
Street Church, Newark, New Jersey; perhaps they 
may wish to do something to aid this plan. This 
representation is sufficiently full to enlist the inter- 
ested sympathy of allwho may readit. The need is 
great. of $189 from abroad. 

Har-yANG—is a busy market town of several thou- 
sand people on the railroad. From Hai-yang we 
can reach the whole region. Estimated need 
$1,872. 

Tunc-E—Services have been held there for about 
six months; we went there at the suggestion of 
the American Board people from Pang-chuang, 
who indicated that they did not care to cross 
the Yellow River for work south of the river Later 
our man Chen from Tai-an visited Tung-E. He 
found more than a hundred people interested and 
anxious for us to open work there. The property 
which we hope to buy is near the west gate of this 
city of 15,000 people. Donation of $378 required. 

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Yu-cHtH—Estimate $189; is a large market town 
about 14 miles from Fei Cheng and will be worked 
in connection with the work at Fei Cheng, by 
meetings held on market days when people come 
from all the region and have time to listen. Be- 
sides Tung-E and Yu-chih, there are at least four 
other places where we need property as badly, 
and where people are urging us to come. Yen-ma- 
chuang, estimate $420, is one of these. 

Tar-aN—There is required from abroad $420, for the 
native preacher’s house. It is badly needed so as 
to make room at the school for its steady growth. 
The pastor lives in one of the buildings desired 
for school purposes. 


WEST CHINA MISSION 


Uin-cHuan—About a year ago our people bought 
a lot for about $175; built a substantial box brick 
church that comfortably seats over 300 people, and 
has commodious rooms for preacher. Total cost 
is $1,300, and they are asking aid to the amount 
of $600. 

Ho-cHEo—For the last ten years’ has been talked of 
as being strategically important; being a crowded 
and very busy place, property is expensive; but a 
lot extending from a fairly good street to the city 
wall has been offered us for $800. The native 
church expects to raise one half of its cost, and 
needs donation of $400. 

Pisan—Needs $1,000 for a church at once, of which 
the natives will give one third. 

CuuNG-KING District—There are about half a dozen 
villages in the Chung-king District in which 
churches ought to be built within the next year, 
costing about $200, of which one third wiil be 
furnished by the native church. 


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Cuentu—For the new hospital the following dona- 
tions are asked: For $1,000 donor can name a large 
medical, surgical, or women’s ward, 25x4o feet, 
with. twelve beds in it. The name will be cut on a 
marble slab 18x36 inches over the mantel. 

For $500 can name an Official ward. Three such 
wards in the second story; one of them is a corner 
room and has five windows, and is 18x23 feet; 
$500 will also endow a bed. 

For $300 can name the fine chapel, a room 
agebyedenieet, lighted on threes sides by, eight 
full sized windows. 

For $250 can name and furnish a private ward. 
There are twelve of these about 14 feet square. 

The sum of $2co will send a church bell with 
which to “‘ring out” the old superstitions and 
“ring in” the new gospel of truth. 

The sum of $150 will put down an artesian well 
which will furnish both hospital and missionaries 
with pure water. Now they never have water in 
its natural state to drink. 

A gift of $100 will furnish the ward for foreigners 
where some poor wanderer, who is far from home, 
may find the Saviour. 

A gift of $10 dollars will buy a bed, and $5 
more will furnish it. At least one hundred such 
gifts are needed. 


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INDIA 
NORTH INDIA CONFERENCE 


Bupaon District, ALApuR—No house or chapel 
where people may meet together to worship. This 
village contains about 5,000 inhabitants. There 
are about 450 Christian converts in the town and 
in its neighborhood and about 200 inquirers. 
People are very poor, but they will help by 
means of their hand labor and also will give about 
$10. Cost, including the price of the land, $216; 
about $206 are needed. 

VAZIRGANJ—A big town with about 2,500 inhabitants; 
no house for preacher or for worship. It will cost 
about $200 including the price of the land. There 
will be great help given to the work by gift of 
this amount for this building. 

Putui—A big village; great need for a chapel; it 
will take about $100 to build a small chapel. The 
people according to their means will be able to give 
about $8. 

KuMARGAUN—We greatly need a house in this vil- 
lage; not long ago the native rpeacher living there 
in a rented house was turned out simply for this 
reason: that they said he would convert and spoil 
the whole village. Bishop Warne has advised 
that a good house be built. It will cost about 
$267, and $20 can probably be raised from the 
Christians. 

BAKsENA—About 200 Christians; population about 
2,000; a house and a chapel are needed for a 

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village of Chamars (tanners) near this village, 
having more than a hundred inquirers. There being 
no house, the preacher goes daily to work among 
them. They have service on Sundays under the 
trees. To build a house and chapel will cost about 
$180; perhaps $8 from the Christians, and they 
will also help by their labor in building the house. 

KacHLA—A chapel is very much needed for this 
place. About 300 Christians are living in the village, 
and there is every prospect of good work. One 
ordained preacher is stationed here. People desire 
to have a church and may be able to pay about $17. 
We will get the land free of cost. The chapel will 
cost about $200. 

GARHWAL DistTRICT, SRINAGAR-—-Old capital of Garh- 
wal; occupied by a native preacher, exhorter, and 
teacher; $500 needed for a church. A growing 
commercial center. The preacher a good worker; 
a suitable house would quadruple his efficiency. 

Kotpwara—Church needed, costing $500; railway 
terminus; occupied by two workers; people will con- 
tribute $30. It would be possible to get large 
congregations. 

Docappa—Church and parsonage needed. Import- 
portant station, occupied by one teacher; $1,000 
for combined building; field can give $300; needed 
from the States $700. 

MorapaBabd District—We need houses for the 
preacher in charge of the following circuits: (1) 
Kanth; (2) Rajpura; (3) Rasulpur; (4) Bilart. 
We have a preacher and two or three other 
workers living in each of these places; but we have 
to rent houses at a high rate, and often we have 
difficulty in getting a house at any price. Nothing 
can be raised on the fieid for this purpose. The 
net amount required for the purchase of land 
and the houses is $200 for each. Such houses 


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for our preachers and workers create confidence 
in the permanency of the work; they become 
evangelistic centers; people come to know us when 
we have one permanent place of residence for the 
preacher, and resort to his house as they will not 
do if he is constantly changing his dwelling place. 

OvupH District, LAKHIMPUR—A city of perhaps 20,000 
people and center of large district. Have a small 
Christian community and a chapel, but need a 
preacher’s house, costing about $600. Could raise 
$100 of it locally. 

SIDHAULI—A circuit center, where we have about a 
hundred Christians, but have neither church nor 
preacher’s house, so we are liable to be turned out at 
any time. Church would cost $400 and house $200, 
making $600 needed from abroad. 

IraunjJA—Also a circuit center, with a population 
of about 10,000 in the city itself, and 50,0co or 
more in the circuit. Need both a preacher’s 
house and a chapel, the former to cost $300 and 
the latter $400, so that a gift of $700 is asked. 

BARABANKI—A most important center. Have had 
work here for thirty years and have perhaps 200 
Christians, but never had any property and cannot 
consequently get a foothold. Have a house for 
preacher offered for about $500, and will be greatly 
encouraged by donation of that amount. 

CoLONELGANJ—Another circuit center with no prop- 
erty whatever. It will take $200 for a house and 
$400 for a chapel. 

GonpAa—One of our largest cities. Have a good girl’s 
boarding and boy’s day school, but no church. 
Need donation of $1,000 for this. Can add $200 
on the field, probably. 

BaLRAMPUR—Capital of a native state, where we are 
trying to get a foothold. May be compelled to 
leave any time, as we have no property, and renters 


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do not want us. Need $300 for a preacher’s house 
and $400 for a chapel. 

The above are but a very few of the places 
where the Oudh district needs property. In all 
the cases named we would much profit by having a 
place from which we could not be turned out, 
and having a definite place of our own would give 
us standing. 

PitiBHIT District, BIHARI—Can get no suitable 
property to rent here, and yetit is center of a 
circuit. Needsa preacher’s house for $100. 

BarGAN—We can get no house here, but it is a splen- 
did place for work; $67 would build us a house. 

Nuriya—A large center with 150 Christians, but no 
preacher’s house and no chapel; property is very 
much needed; $67 would build a home for the 
worker, and $100 a village chapel. 

KicHa—lIs a center; we have not been able to develop 
it, as we have no property at all; $50 would build 
a pastor’s house. 

MrraNnpuR—About 80 Christians here, but no prop- 
erty; $60 would build a home for the preacher. 
In all of these places property would give us stand- 
ing and take away the danger of being likely to 
be thrown out of rented property whenever we 
baptize anyone and the people get angry about it. 


SOUTH INDIA CONFERENCE 


SHANKARPALLI—sub-circuit. Extent about 250square 
miles. The town giving name to the circuit is a 
railway town and large shipping center for a good 
farming region of wide extent. There are 15 
villages within a radius of three miles, in three of 
which are Christian communities aggregating over 
60. Many inquirers in these and other villages. 
Three workers are serving in this field. Urgently 
need a building that will furnish accommodation 

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for two families and a large room for school pur- 
poses and church services. The cost will be about 
$300, which is-asked as a gift. 

LINGAMPALLI—Sub-circuit. About 270 square miles 
in extent; a railway town. Christian community 
of about 25 in two centers. There are a goodly 
number of hopeful inquirers in several villages. 
Room for two families of workers, for religious 
services, and a school needed. Probable cost $325, 
required from the United States. 

GoL_LaGupA—Sub-circuit, Extent about 280 square 
miles. Its importance is due to the fact that it is 
a convenient center from which to work an exten- 
sive field, closely studded with towns and villages. 
We were compelled to build here, as no houses 
available for rent. Building furnishes comfortable 
accommodation for two families and has an extra 
room, large enough to serve for church services 
and for a school. We require fully $400 to cover 
its cost. 

RAICHUR—25,000 inhabitants. Railway junction 
and head of Raichur Circuit covering 4,000 square 
miles, with population of 500,000. $200 needed 

_ for site and $2,500 for missionary residence. 

SHORAPUR AND YADGIRI—Two circuits, each having 
at least 200,000 population. Christian community 
over 600. Two houses needed at $1,000 each for 
native preachers and their helpers. 


CENTRAL PROVINCES CONFERENCE 


TANDuR, Koscui, KoHtr, AND Parci—We ouyht to 
have four school house chapels to cost $175 each. 
These centers command each an area of about 200 
square miles and an average of 100 villages each, 
or a population of some 20,000 people from each 
Center. 

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VIKARABAD—The center of the circuit, where our 
two boarding schools are located; also urgently 
needs a school house chapel, but a larger building 
is needed than at the other places, costing not less 
than $2,000, which is asked as a donation. 

JABALPUR—Population of the city 90,000; a good 
site for a church paid for at a cost of about 
$1,200. We ought to build achurch here which will 
cost $8,000. Also a second missionary residence 
to cost $3,000. These amounts are greatly needed 
as gifts from the United States. 

CHoTE CHINDWARA—A preacher’s residence and a 
chapel; cost of each $400. 

Kuanpwa—A home for girl widows, and others, to 
cost $800. Three buildings at headquarters of 
sub-circuits combining residence for a preacher 
and a chapel, $350 each. These sums asked as 
gifts. 

Nacpur—Population 120,000; a missionary residence 
is needed, cost, $3,000; fortunately we have a 
site; it would be almost impossible to purchase 
a site there now. Who will meet the cost of the 
residence? 

Bastm—A schoolhouse for the boys’ orphanage and 
missionary residence; each to cost $5,000; will 
name the school after the donor, making it his or 
her permanent memorial. Three residences for 
the native preachers at the head of circuits or 
sub- circuits, $200 each. Donations of amounts 
named asked from the home field. 

Raipur—We have a building lot of ten acres con- 
veyed by the government for the Mission free of 
cost; a church, schoolhouse, and orphanage. The 
health of the missionary and the native helpers 
who reside on the premises, suffers. We have 
recently had two deaths in the families of two of our 
workers, brought about through ill health, largely 

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due tothe low, damp, unhealthful accommodations 
they have to put up with. Fora suitable mission 
home, workers’ quarters, etc., we need $4,000. 
If some one could be persuaded to make such a 
home a memorial, it would be a benediction. 
Druc—Mr. and Mrs. Richards and workers are 
compelled to live in an old shed. This they have 
made to some extent habitable but it is too flimsy 
and all too insecure, and they are all the time ex- 
posed to grave risks to health. It is the only place 
that could be had. In Drug for $3,000 we could 
build a substantial mission home for the workers, 
and for an additional $3,000 we could build a school 
chapel. These amounts are asked as donations. 


BURMA MISSION CONFERENCE 


Rancoon—Capital of Burma. Brick church to cost 
$5,000 needed for the vernacular congregations; 
of the total amount $3,500 is asked from abroad. 

RAaNGooN—Frame church needed for Burmese con- 
gregation; building to cost $4,000 of which $3,000 
must be raised out of the country. 

RaNnGoon—Missionary residence needed, to cost 
$3,000, $500 of which can be raised in Burma; the 
remainder is asked for. 

SyriAM—Burmese suburb of Rangoon. A church- 
school is needed to cost $1,000, half of which must 
be secured abroad. 

Pecu—District center. Frame church needed to 
cost $3,000, one third of which can be raised locally 
and the rest is asked for. 

THONGWA—District center. $3,000 is needed for a 
church-residence; half of this amount can be raised 
locally and the remainder is asked for. 

Datk U—Sub-district center. A church-school is 
needed. $500 of the required $1,000 can be secured 
locally. 


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THANDAUNG—A hill station for which a frame church 
is desired. Of the $4,000 needed, $2,500 must be 
secured abroad. 

THANATPYIN—A church-school is needed for this Bur- 
mese village; of the required $600, one third can be 
raised locally. 

TwantTe—Burmese village. $1,000 is asked to make 
possible the erection of a church-school building to 
cost $2,000. 


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JAPAN 
JAPAN CONFERENCE 


SENDAI—The capital of Miyagi Ken, is the largest city 
north of Tokyo, having a population of about 
go,ooo, It is the principle educational, military, 
commercial,a nd religious center of the whole north- 
east part of Japan. It is the headquarters of the 
second division of the imperial army. The Meth- 
odist mission has located here a missionary and his 
wife of the parent board, and two ladies of the W. 
F. M. S., besides a native ordained preacher, who 
is pastor of the local church. ‘This is in need of a 
new building to cost $3,500. The lot is already 
paid for and $2,000 can be raised on the field. Net 
amount needed from the United Statesis $1,500. If 
the building is secured, we shall have an adequate 
house of worship for our church society. The present 
building is old and too small.. The Methodist 
church here has a larger number of representa- 
tive and influential men of the city in its member- 
ship than any other denomination. It is self-sup- 
porting, and is the only one that is entirely so on 
this district. With a creditable church edifice, 
we can press forward the work of the kingdom in 
this hopeful and receptive city. Christianity has 
established its hold upon this place, and Methodism 
ought not to be behind the other denominations, sev- 
eral of which have fine new church buildings. The 
local society has done well to raise as much as it 
has in these stringent times, and we appeal to the 
friends of Christian missionary work to carry this 

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project through. For a gift of $1,000, we would 
be glad to have the donor name the church as a 
memorial building. 

Morioka—lIs the capital city of Iwate Ken, and has a 
population of 30,000. It is on the main line of the 
Nippon Railway, too miles north of Sendai, or 300 
miles north of Tokyo. It is the center of an agri- 
cultural and fruit raising district, and also has some 
manufacturers. The Methodists have no mission- 
ary in this city, but we have a regular pastor, an 
ordained member of the Japan Conference. He 
has gathered about him a goodly company of earn- 
est, devout Christians. The work calls for a church 
building to cost $1,000. The lot has already been 
paid for, and $250 can be raised on the field. Net 
amount needed from the United States is $750. A 
church building is an imperative need here. Until 
this year the congregation has worshiped in the par- 
sonage, itself a tumble-down affair which was on 
the ground when the lot was purchased. This 
spring the members built a new parsonage, but 
they have almost reached the limit of their ability, 
as none of them are well-to-do. With a church 
building on a fine lot we own in Morioka, this charge 
would soon become one of the strongest in the Con- 
ference, as it is now on the district. For a gift of 
$500, the donor could name the church as a memori- 
al building. 


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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 
BUILDINGS AT MANILA 


SANTA Cruz CHuRcH—The importance of this church 
lies in the fact that our native work began here 
with Brother N. Zamora as pastor, and is looked 
upon by the natives as the head of our work for 





OUR TEMPORARY CHURCH BUILDING, MANILA 
Croud at a Good Friday service 


them. They worship now in a small chapel. 
Rome has awe-inspiring edifices here. Unless we 
do something soon here many will conclude we 
never intend to do anything and will cool in their 
zeal, possibly going back to Romanism. If we do 
build it is likely a large number would be drawn 
toward us and many become settled in their reli- 
gious life. There is already available $7,000, and 
$8,000 more is required for such a building as the 
situation demands. 
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Tonpo—A district of Manila, has something like 
50,000 or 60,000 people, about half of whom are 
said to be open to evangelization. In the district 
we have nine cheap chapels with a membership of 
about 700. These chapels are small and inadequate. 
They are dingy, and were only meant as temporary 
homes for our people until we could afford to build 
churches. The people are very poor generally, 
but the chapels are so inferior to the churches they 
have been used to, and so lacking in comfort, that 
they do not attract as they once did. We must 
have a good church, if plain, if we expect to retain 
our hold or enlarge our influence in the com- 
munity. We will do exceedingly well if we raise 
the cost of the lots, about $1,000; and $3,000 is 
needed for the church building. The church mem- 
bership could be increased fifty per cent the first 
year after completion of building. 

Santa ANA—A good church here is an important 
matter because it is the center of our work among 
some 20,000 people. Now we have nothing but 
a ‘‘neepa’’ shack, and with a fine church in this 
district owned by the Catholic church, we must 
more nearly approximate it if we desire to hold our 
native people. About $500 could be raised on the 
field, and $1,500 is needed from abroad. 

Santa Mesa—Is an important arm of our native 
work, there being some 15,000 people living in this 
district. We now have a small chapel built on 
rented land and should own land and put up some- 
thing durable if we hold our people. This would 
call for $1,500 from the United States, in addition 
to $500 from the field. 

BINONDO DiIstTRIcT—Is given up largely to the Chi- 
nese of Manila, of whom there are 27,000. At pres- 
ent we rent a few rooms over a store as a place for 
holding our meetings, paying a rental of $25 per 

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A MANILA CHAPEL 


month, and to meet this expense we maintain a 
night school. Our Chinese are doing well in help- 
ing us school their children, but a suitable church 
will be needed to enable us to do a good spiritual 
work. The sum of $3,500 is available, and $1,500 
is needed from outside. 

HospiraL—The importance of a hospital with our 
work here cannot be over-estimated. The death rate 
of infants and mothers during confinement is larger 
than any city in the Orient, owing to ignorance of 
some simple and well-known principles of the med- 
ical. fraternity. Governor Wright has given us 
$2,500 for this work, with which we maintain a 
small dispensary to meet in a measure the above 
need, butitis not at all what we should have. As 
the total cost would be $10,000, a gift of $7,500 
is required to carry out the enterprise. 

TRAINING ScHOOL—Our 150 native pastors urgently 
need such a school, and toward it $10,000 has been 
given by Brother George Nicholson of lola, Kan- 
sas, but we ought to have some $5,oo0 more to 
build and equip properly. 

MissiONARY HomMres—Three of these, one costing 
$1,000, and two others $3,000 each, are needed 
to provide for pastors and other workers. 


BUILDINGS IN THE PROVINCES 


The important provincial centers here men- 
tioned extend from Lingayen, the first and most 
strategic in the list, situated forty miles north of 
Manila, to the northern coast of the Island of Luzon. 
The first four are capitals of provinces, and the last 
two are prominent cities, while all have large com- 
mercial, educational, and social relations with 
surrounding sections of population. The develop- 
ment of our property in these strong centers is an . 
essential, in order that the people of all the north- 

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ern part of this leading island may be won and held 
for Christ and our Protestant religion. 

(1) A church and parsonage in Lingayen. 
Building, $700; land, $300; parsonage, $2,000. 
Total gift needed,$3,000. 

(2) Church building in Dagupan. church, $1,000, 
parsonage, $2,500. Total gift needed, $3,500. 

(3) A church and parsonage in Vigan. Land, 
$500; building, $1,000; parsonage, $2,000. Total 
gift needed, $3,500. 

(4) Land and a church building in the city of 
Tarlac. Land, $250; building, $500. Total gift 
needed, $750. 

(s) A church building and land in Aparri in the 
Cagayan valley. Land, $250; building, $1,000. 
Total gift needed, $1,250. 

(6) A church building and parsonage for Candon, 
Ilocos Sur. Land, $300; church building, $1,000; 
parsonage, $2,000. Total gift needed, $3,300. 


Inquiries or correspondence concerning any of the 
above needs mentioned in this booklet, and donations 
for same, are to be sent to the Missionary Secre- 
taries, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York. 


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